2023-07-05
Card Inspiration Christmas

Card challenges are great for inspiration! I was inspired by the Double Trouble Challenge to create a Christmas Card in July. I also accepted Thing Three’s Challenge to add Stars and Stripes. The stars are in the top corner and a few banners have stripes. I also took the Double Dare to enter in the Jingle Belles Challenge. Finally I used the sketch at Atlantic Hearts for the card layout.

I had so much fun I made another one with different papers!

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2022-12-17
Card Inspiration Christmas

I need Christmas cards! As per usual, I have procrastinated and now need to send a bunch of Christmas cards tomorrow. Lucky for me, the Atlantic Hearts Sketch is perfect for a quick Christmas card. This challenge is so much fun and I hope you’ll play along too!

I love how quickly this card came together.

I followed the sketch using some VERY old paper from Close To My Heart. I used the back side of the paper for the “ribbon” and bow. The final tag is a sentiment stamp from the Comfort and Joy Cardmaking stamp set.

I hope you like the card and feel inspired to create.

Happy Stamping,

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2022-11-27
Card Inspiration Christmas

This card was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches. I also used the three colors from this week’s Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge. I adore challenges – they’re a great way to get creative! Hope you can join me in either of these fun challenges!

I had a great time creating this card. I had a plan as soon as I saw the colors in the color dare. The base is a top-folded sheet of Melon Cardstock. I used our rectangle die cuts, to cut a wisteria background, which is embossed with Cascading dots to look a bit like snow. The snowflake is stamped and cut from the seas and Greetings special on mist cardstock. I decided it needed to stand out more, so I added a circle of silver glitter paper. The greeting is also from Seas and Greetings and outlined with silver glitter paper.

I hope you like the card and feel inspired to create.

Happy Stamping,

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2022-11-26
Card Inspiration Christmas

This card was inspired by The Double Trouble Challenge. I think I pleased all of the Things! I used dots and stripes for Thing 1. I used the sketch at Try Stamping on Tuesday AND joined the challenge for Thing 2. I even added paper piecing on the cookies for Thing 3.

This challenge was great fun. I hope you will join me!

Slimline cards are really fun! This one has a scarlet border around the adorable baking paper from Freshly Baked. I added the polka dot and striped papers to meet the challenge requirement to mix patterns – it worked really well with this paper set!

The little sugar cookie images all feature some paper piecing. The snowman is on French Vanilla and has a scarlet scarf and hat. The heart cookie and gingerbread man are on Toffee Paper.

The sentiment is stamped in Scarlet using the Flourished Greetings stamp.

I hope you like the card and feel inspired to create.

Happy Stamping,

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2022-11-25
Card Inspiration Christmas

This is one of my favorite card sets to make, it’s perfect for a matching gift set. This particular set features Seas and Greetings because it’s going to a family member who adores all things snowmen! I’m also entering it in the Heart2Heart Card Creations challenge. I hope you join me!

each of these cards is a fun-fold, so they open in unique ways. There are four different designs – I repeated my favorite one. Here is a closer look at each card!

Hope you like the cards and are inspired to get creative!

Happy Stamping!

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2022-11-22
Card Inspiration Christmas

I love this paper! This card set used the VIP Seas and Greetings Cardmaking pattern, but I liked the winter stamp and papers better, so I switched it. They turned out cute, and I had lots of paper left over! I might even actually follow the plan and make the cards using the summer/beach theme with the rest of the pack.

I’m entering this set in the Heart 2 Heart Recipe Exchange challenge – since a card kit is like a recipe. Nevermind that I didn’t fully follow it! Challenges are tons of fun and I hope you’ll join me!

This set was so much fun to create. I followed the VIP cardmaking guide, but I changed all the papers to the winter images (back side of each sheet). I also used the winter snowman stamp instead of the summer one. Since I am making this set as a gift, I wanted her to be able to send them all year. The set makes three of each design, so I used some winter sentiments, and added others. I used the Flourished Greetings to create thank you, happy birthday, and thinking of you.

If you would like to actually follow the guide, you will want to purchase the Seas and Greetings VIP card kit which includes everything you will need (except a few inks and markers).

Happy Stamping,

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2022-07-14
Card Inspiration Christmas

This card was inspired by the Christmas in July Challenge at Double Trouble. I was excited to break out my Christmas stash and found WAY too much stuff. So I decided to follow Thing 2’s challenge to narrow down my colors and theme. This meant I “had” to enter over at Color My Heart Color Dare too! Then I decided I needed a layout idea, and I found the perfect one on Freshly Made Sketches. So this fun card is now in THREE challenges. I love doing challenges as sometimes it’s just the inspiration I need when I feel overwhelmed by the amount of papers I have collected.

Please check out these challenges and join me in this one or the next one

This card was really fun to make. I love using up older papers in my stash. The base is double sided sheet. I LOVE using these for entire cards as it’s fun to have pretty patterns on the inside too. I will just add a white insert so I can write the message inside. The flower is cut with a Cricut cut. It’s wonderful to be able to make my own embellishments in any color I want!

I hope you like the card and feel inspired to create.

Happy Stamping,

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2021-11-05
Card Inspiration Christmas Masculine

Welcome to the Holiday blog hop. We have 13 fabulous consultants who are excited to inspire you with holiday crafts. Let’s get ready for Christmas!

If you are coming from Scrappy Chicks, you are on the right path. This blog is a big circle and you will be able to hop on from each page. If you get lost, there is a full list of all participants on Melinda’s blog.

Let’s have some fun!

This card was so much fun to make. I had a great time using the Holly and Ivy Paper. This pack sold out, but the star of the design is the deer from the Holly & Ivy Digital Art collection. I cut a tag and just taped glitter paper to the back to make a sparkly dear. This card was super fun and quick to put together!

I hope you enjoyed your visit. I’d love for you to leave a comment before you “Hop” on over to ScrappinKaty and check out her beautiful art work.

Happy hopping!

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2021-01-03
Card Inspiration Christmas

My first Christmas card of the year! This card was inspired by the Double Trouble Challenge. This challenge is so much fun – I love the things and their options. I even did all the things! As Thing 1 requested I used my Cricut Explore to cut the O Holy Night AND I used die cuts for the manger and Baby Jesus. Thing 2 invited us to enter at Bitten by the Bug 2, so I have entered there and hope you will also join me! Finally, Thing 3 should appreciate all my pattern papers!

And, because I’m so excited to get an early start on next year’s Christmas cards, I’m entering this one in the Christmas Crafts All Year Round Challenge. I used blue and Baby Jesus.

This one was really fun to make. I used papers from Serenity and cut the O Holy Night with my Cricut Explore using “Season of Joy.” The cut is Sapphire, Canary, and Blue Belle. I used the manger and Baby Jesus from the Cedar and Pine Card Workshop set, used the included thin cuts to die cut the images. I also popped out Baby Jesus using thin 3D Foam. I added color with a few of our Tri-Blend Markers (Gold Brown, Brown Grey, and Fair Skin). I love how easy it is to color with these markers – they have 3 shades in one pen, so you always know what color to use to blend.

I hope you like the card and feel inspired to create.

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2020-12-02
Card Club Christmas

Here is a sneak peak of the cards we will be making for card club this month. If you are in need of some Christmas cards and would like to join our virtual card club this month, please fill out the form.

The card kit will include all the paper (pre-cut) and envelopes to make 15 cards (3 of each design). You will be able to add the materials to your order as needed.

Your supplies will come from Close To My Heart (within 2 weeks), and I will send you the pre-cut kit pieces in 2-3 weeks.

We will assemble the cards in a virtual crop (via Zoom) on December 16th at 7pm (PST). If you are unable to attend the virtual crop, you can still order the kit (as long as materials are available). I will record an assembly video for each card (after the crop) and send the links to everyone who purchases.

These cards feature the Jingle Joy Paper Pack and Jingle Joy Cardmaking Stamp. The third card uses an animated stamp from the Animated Holiday Stamp set. It’s so much fun!

Let’s Create together!

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